The funding will be used to expand sales regions in North America, optimize and scale manufacturing, develop new software and hardware products, and launch into international markets.

John Deere uses SparkAI’s human-in-the-loop technology on its autonomous tractors to resolve edge cases in real time.

The 2023 World Ag Expo is the largest farm equipment show in the world. This year there was a record number of autonomous solutions on display.

On the show this week, Mike discusses the new automation and robotics solutions on display at the 2023 World Ag Expo.

The company is fulfilling the first production units of its autonomous, all-electric tractor for Constellation Brands.

Verdant Robotics’ Series A raised $46.5 million. The money will speed up the company’s robotic farm manufacturing and market launch.

Iron Ox, an agriculture technology company, laid off a number of its employees, according to reports from now-former employees.

Teledyne FLIR pairs a radiometric thermal and visible camera payload featuring MSX with an affordable, flexible, and easy-to-operate airframe.

Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman are joined by Dan Kara to preview RoboBusiness 2022.

This week’s podcast reviews the latest developments in UAVs and a deep dive into product management with Kishore Boyalakuntla.

This week’s podcast discusses situations in which AI and machine learning still come up short for robotics systems and how a human-in-the-loop system can help solve edge cases in real-time.

Sprout is a lightweight, battery-powered autonomous robot that can precisely harvest asparagus for up to 16 hours a day.

Full-scale production of Monarch Tractor’s MK-V all-electric, autonomous tractor is scheduled to begin in Q1 2023.

With the latest round of funding, Lyro Robotics plans to deliver around 20 autonomous robotic packers to agriculture clients.

Applications to join the 2023 cohort of the AGLaunch365 agricultural solutions accelerator are due by July 18, 2022.

Stout AgTech offers vision guided, mechanical cultivation with the launch of its Smart Cultivator implement.

FarmWise delivery autonomous weeding as a service using vision cameras to separate crop plants from weeds.

This week, we talk to Brian Gerkey the co-founder and CEO of Open Robotics about ROS and open source software.

This week, we talk to Universal Robots VP of strategy Anders Beck about the features of the new UR20 Cobot.

Cal/OSHA once again denied a petition to change regulations that currently ban the use of autonomous tractors.

The Field Robotics Engineering Forum seeks submissions that focus on the design and development of robotics systems that operate in outdoor, unstructured and dynamic environments, such as construction worksites, open mines, and farm fields, as well as busy urban centers.

FarmWise Labs offers precise robotic weeding as a service with a pay-per-acre model in California and Arizona.